On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Russ Hunt wrote:
> way to think about it: a reference book is pull technology, a
> textbook is push technology.
Provided I understood the line of your posting correctly:
... and of course there is also a *point of view*: if no theory is
disinterested then no reference book, or article, is not at the same time
a textbook - a push technology, in your terms. Bourdieu would say that no
theory can be descriptive without being prescriptive. And in this sense if
the proof is in the pudding then again the function of the textbook boils
down to the role it is attributed by its users, i.e. to a point of
view.
ania